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#Kotlin Kotlin 1.3.70 released 👉 The functionality of StringBuilder has been expanded 👉 Part of the functionality on KClass now does not require kotlin-reflect dependency 👉 Experimental and UseExperimental annotations renamed to OptIn and RequiresOptIn 👉 Clock and ClockMark renamed to TimeSource and TimeMark 👉 kotlin.collections.ArrayDeque was added 👉 Collection Builders: buildList (), buildSet () and buildMap () 👉 New functions for collections: scan (), scanReduce () 👉 Kotlin now can generate type annotations at the JVM bytecode (target version 1.8+) 👉 Improved .gradle.kts IDE Support 👉 Debugger improvement 👉 Improved Kotlin scripts, examples

Kakao 2.3.0 released Kakao is a PageObject pattern Kotlin DSL for Android UI testing built on the base of Espresso What's new in the latest version: 👉 ViewPager2 support added with KViewPager2 👉 ChipGroup support added with KChipGroup 👉 Spinner support added with KSpinner 👉 Tint support added to KImageView 👉 Dependencies' versions upgrade 👉 Smaller fixes/improvements Check out the library at GitHub and get familiar with the full chages here To see some examples of what you can do with this library, you can read this Medium blog post #Kakao #Testing

#AndroidStudio Android Studio 3.6 released A new stable version of the main Android developer tool has been released and it has brought the following improvements: 👉 SplitView instead of Layout Preview (it got worse for me) 👉 ViewBinding 👉 Memory leak detection in the Memory Profiler (why? Is there LeakCanary) 👉 Color Picker 👉 Idea 2019.2 👉 Improvements to “Apply Changes” 👉 Android Gradle Plugin integration with Maven Publishing Plugin 👉 R class now immediately generates bytecode instead of Java code, this speeds up kapt and incremental build 👉 New utility for packing APK. Used by default for debug builds There are many changes and all of them cannot be listed, but you can familiarize yourself with them in the full review

#DependencyInjection A Dependency Injection Showdown Choosing a dependency framework for your Android app is, a big decision, it’s not something that you can easily replace later on. Comparison of popular JVM DI: Dagger 2, Koin, Toothpick, Kodein.

Google  today announced the first developer preview of Android 11, which is now available as system images for Google’s own Pixel devices, starting with the Pixel  2. https://www.reddit.com/r/android_beta/comments/f6ep15/android_11_developer_preview_1_now_available/ #Android11

Looks like something dedicated to initialization of different components / libraries is coming to AndroidX. #androidx #library

Google has released Android Code Search. It’s a tool for searching Android (and libraries) source code. It also knows how to navigate from one part of the code to another. #aosp #code #search

Testing can seem to be a tax on development time. However, as many seasoned developers have seen, proper automated testing can increase development velocity as the code base becomes bigger and more complex. Continuous testing should give you confidence that the change you make won’t break your app. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/10/continuous-testing-with-new-android.html #testing #Docker

Starting August 1, 2019, your apps published on Google Play will need to support 64-bit architectures. https://youtu.be/E96vmWkUdgA Docs: https://developer.android.com/distribute/best-practices/develop/64-bit 🙄 How to test your app? :: Command Line # A successful install: > adb install --abi arm64-v8a YOUR_APK_FILE.apk Success # If your APK does not have the 64-bit libraries: > adb install --abi arm64-v8a YOUR_APK_FILE.apk adb: failed to install YOUR_APK_FILE.apk : Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS: Failed to extract native libraries, res=-113] # If your device does not support 64-bit, an emulator, for example: > adb install --abi arm64-v8a YOUR_APK_FILE.apk ABI arm64-v8a not supported on this device #GooglePlay #arm

Google Play services and Firebase migrating to AndroidX (June/July of 2019) ! https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/06/google-play-services-and-firebase.html "If your app depends on any com.google.android.gms or com.google.firebase libraries, you should prepare for this migration" Migration guide: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/migrate #AndroidX #Jetpack #Firebase #GooglePlayServices

The stable release of the Android Jetpack Navigation component. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Cs2MQxyIs Check details here: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/03/android-jetpack-navigation-stable.html?linkId=64791391 Guides: https://developer.android.com/guide/navigation #Navigation #Jetpack

The GCM server and client APIs are deprecated and will be removed as soon as April 11, 2019 (in 1 month !). Migrate GCM apps to Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), which inherits the reliable and scalable GCM infrastructure, plus many new features. See the migration guide to learn more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeexEiFprY8 Migrating from GCM to FCM → https://goo.gl/hyt6e7 FCM Guide → https://goo.gl/GQ67DS GCM Migration FAQ → https://goo.gl/hY48co #GCM #Firebase #FCM #Google

Google is sharing more information about the Google Play requirements for 2019, and announcing some changes that affect apps distributed via other stores. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/02/expanding-target-api-level-requirements.html Migration guides: https://developer.android.com/distribute/best-practices/develop/target-sdk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyDnYaFtRS0 Important changes in SDK 28: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/android-9.0-changes-28 #GooglePlay

Android Studio 3.3 is available now (stable channel) Major feature: CPU Profiler - New live allocation memory tracking options https://youtu.be/DdWWsruUXTo https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2018/10/android-studio-33-beta-1-available.html?m=1 #AndroidStudio

Countdown to 2019 Discover a surprise Android developer resource, each day until the new year. Check back daily and learn something new. https://developer.android.com/nye/ https://youtu.be/CqBCLM-VDlE #Android #Highlights #Countdown

Mobius - MVI framework by Spotify (Android Dev Podcast. Episode #80 with Marcus, software engineer from Spotify and Artem Zinnatullin from Lyft) https://soundcloud.com/leonid-bogolubov/android-dev-podcast-80-mobius-mvi-framework-by-spotify #AndroidDevPodcast #MVI

https://soundcloud.com/user-38099918/dependency-injection-with-koin Talking Kotlin podcast episode: "Dependency Injection with Koin" We chat with Arnaud about Koin, a new dependency injection framework written from the ground up in Kotlin. We discuss the why, the how and whether in this day and age it makes sense to even have dependency injections frameworks. http://talkingkotlin.com/dependency-injection-with-koin/ #DI #Dependencyinjection #Kotlin #Talkingkotlin

Google I/O Android App source code updated (2018) This year update contains: Kotlin, AndroidX, material, flexbox, lottie, lifecycle (architecture components), dagger https://github.com/google/iosched https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/08/google-releases-source-for-google-io.html #GoogleIO #app #source

Android Pie introduced! Read more about new Android 9: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/android-9.0 Source code: https://android.googlesource.com/?format=HTML https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/08/introducing-android-9-pie.html #AndroidPie